Isn't the sample super biased? StackOverflow is increasingly bleeding users to AI tooling. Shouldn't we expect the remaining users to be increasingly distrustful of AI?
I don't use StackOverflow at all anymore.
mutkach · 20m ago
> Respondents were recruited primarily through channels owned by Stack Overflow. The top sources of respondents were onsite messaging, blog posts, email/newsletter subscribers, banner ads, and social media posts. Since respondents were recruited in this way, highly-engaged users on Stack Overflow were more likely to notice the prompts to take the survey over the duration of the collection promotion. We also recruited respondents via a Reddit ad campaign, this accounted for < 2% of total responses.
absoluteunit1 · 1h ago
That’s a good point - but I suspect that many people who don’t use StackOverflow still participate in the survey. It’s quite popular
As expected we’re getting closer and closer to the Trough of Disillusionment. That’s not a bad thing, because it leads to the Plateau of Productivity.[1]
Anecdotally for myself I’m finding that LLMs are great when I can give it a hyper specific target like a function to write. This isn’t because it can’t write an entire script. It can. It’s because the more I let it run wild, it feels like my understanding of the code gets exponentially worse.
Growing disillusionment among programmers (whose productivity gains, by the way, represent the most successful use case for AI yet) is indeed not necessarily a bad thing.
What is concerning is that VCs seem to believe we are still in the exponential growth phase of the hype cycle. I believe the consensus among them (and the bigtech-adjacent shills) is that they are targeting a trillion-dollar market at minimum. Somehow.
odinellefsen · 2h ago
And they're getting more expensive
hollownobody · 1h ago
"AI tools are bad", says company most suffering by the use of AI tools
I don't use StackOverflow at all anymore.
Anecdotally for myself I’m finding that LLMs are great when I can give it a hyper specific target like a function to write. This isn’t because it can’t write an entire script. It can. It’s because the more I let it run wild, it feels like my understanding of the code gets exponentially worse.
1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
What is concerning is that VCs seem to believe we are still in the exponential growth phase of the hype cycle. I believe the consensus among them (and the bigtech-adjacent shills) is that they are targeting a trillion-dollar market at minimum. Somehow.